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Google Nexus One: How to Force Stop a Frozen or Hung Application

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If your Nexus One behaves strangely and you think that an application on it is frozen or not responding, you can close the application easily.

Google Nexus One: How to Uninstall Applications

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As you experiment with different applications for your device, you are bound to run into the need to uninstall an application that is no longer needed (or wanted).

Google Nexus One: How to Locate the Device’s Wi-Fi MAC Address

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If your wireless router uses MAC filtering, you will need to know the MAC address of your device so that it may connect to the internet.

Google Nexus One : Track down power hungry apps

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Battery life on a phone is very precious, even these days with our advancements in power. The Google Nexus One and its 1Ghz Snapdragon processor can gobble up your battery pretty fast if you have a lot of background apps running. This recipe shows you Android’s built-in utility to spot which apps are the culprits.

Google Nexus One: Assign a Ringtone to a Contact

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By assigning different ringtones to certain contacts, you can easily tell who is calling you without having to look at your phone.

Google+: How to Control Who Can Start a Huddle with You

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Huddle allows mobile Google+ users to text with groups from their Google+ circles. By default, anyone on Google+ can start a Huddle with you, here’s how to trim that down.

Android Browser: Reset to default settings

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When tweaking the Android Browser to suit their needs, many users may end up with strange or unwanted behaviors in the browser. Here is how to reset the browser to the default settings.

SQL Server: How To Find Duplicate Records

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When checking the integrity of your data, it may be necessary to check your tables for duplicate records. By grouping these records, you can eliminate the unique records from your result set so that you can view just the records that contain duplicated values, making it easier to remove them.

OS X Lion: Remove Safari’s Reading List Icon from the Bookmarks Bar

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Safari’s Reading List allows users to read web pages later. If you don’t want it taking up room on the Bookmarks bar or you want it on the Toolbar because you don’t use the Bookmarks bar, here’s how to remove it.

Determine Linux version

When visiting a new Linux system, it may not be known which of the many flavors and versions the system is. This recipe describes a couple of techniques for determining the version of Linux running on a host.

Mount an ISO file in Linux

It is convenient to mount an ISO file directly instead of burning it to a CD first. This recipe describes the command used to mount an ISO image on a Linux system.